by
jlwilm » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:01 am
Hi Sheila,
Well, it depends on how you want your papers to be treated.
If the image used does not match the screen aspect ratio it will appear to be letterboxed (top and bottom) or sidebar (left and right sides) blanked.
I ran a little test using my ATI tool that allows me to change screen resolutions and plunked that into EXCEL to calculate the aspect ratio of each of the ones that my video card is capable of delivering.
Here are the results:
- 2008-07-26_074142.jpg (59.95 KiB) Viewed 1571 times
Other video cards may have more options, but is is apparent that the most popular are 1.3, 1.6 and 1.8.
Any paper that you produce that matches those aspect ratios will fit perfectly on all screens that match that aspect ratio.
What I do when I play with this is ask myself what size screen I want to produce an image for - say the old fashioned 1024x768.
I do a custom crop with 10.24 inches by 7.68 inches at whatever ppi is in the native picture and crop it. That image will work for all aspect ratios that are 1.3, etc.
If you don't match the aspect ratio, PCs will let you stretch out the image to fill the space, but will introduce distortion to do it.
So, if you don't want your paper being distorted, produce 1 per the 3 most popular aspect ratios.